Lamp-shelf bracket.



No. 633,874. Pa'tentad Sept. 26', 1399.

C. MEE, 8a. LAMP SHELF BRACKET.

(Application filed. .m ao, .1598.

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BY gaatifi I momma WITNESSES UNITED STAT S CHARLES MEE, ea, or CORTLAND,NEW YORK.

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srnciricn'rron To all whom it may concern: H

Be it known that 1, CHARLES MEE, SI., of

Cortland, in the county of Cortland, in the State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Shelf 'Braclc' ets, ofwhich the following, taken in connection with the accompanying,drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to lamp holding brackets.

My object is to provide an improved bracket comprising a suitablesupport, a sleeve adjustable thereon, arms hinged to said sleeve angularfor a portion of their length and having their outer ends pivoted upon abody, a plate hinged to said body, parallel bars mounted in said plateand adjustable lengthwise therein, leaves hinged upon one of said bars,a button to hold them open or to permit them to drop down or fold, andmeans to lock said arms in whatever position they may assume withreference to the support, whereby the elevation of the lamp-holdingleaves is determined.

My invention consists in mounting the supporting-arms upon a pivotalsleeve, bending them angularly to carry the body in a vertical plane,whereby the lamp-holding leaves are maintained in a horizontal plane, inlooking said arms in any vertical position assumed, and in hinging thelamp-holding bars upon said body, whereby the lampshelf can be swung atan angle to said body and arms when desired.

It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection on line a: m in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan. Fig. 4: isa frontelevation showing the leaves folded down. Fig. 5. is a sectional detailof a set-screw-clampin g device to lock the supporting-arms,body,guide-plate,

and parallel bars together.

A is a suitable support the precise form of.

which is not essential so long as it is provided with a suitable base topermit it to be secured upon a table or Wall and a suitable arm uponwhich a sleeve 2 can be mounted and clamped by a set-screw 3 to lock-itin any position to which it is swung. Said sleeve has suitable ears 4,to which arms 5 are suitably forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,874,dated September 26, 1899. Application filedJ'uly 20, 1898. Serial No.686,471. (No modehl pivoted, said'arms being paralleland bentangularly,as'at 6, and suitably pivoted to or upon a body 7, as at 8L Upon thisbody a guide-plate 9 is suitably hinged, as at 10, having parallelvertical flanges 11, in which the parallel bars12 are mounted to bereciprocated, and normally held in alinement with said arms bygmeans ofa set-screw 13, which alsoholds said plate against said body. Thisset-screw can be used with a washer CL large enough tooverlap the bars12 and clamp them when it is screwed up to hold them in place, or saidwasher may be integralwith said screw. Upon the upper bar leaves 14 aresuitably hinged, and 15 is a button suitably mounted to support them tocreate a lamp holding shelf. Said button is also so, ar ranged that whenit is turned around beside said bars's'aid leaves or shelf-sections willfall or fold down when desired. The body 7 is also provided with a rack16, and 17 is a thumb-screw engaging with one of the said arm-sto lockit in one of the rack-tooth spaces, whereby said arms are securedin anyposi tion to which they are swung vertically. The angularity of thesearms serves to always maintain the lamp-shelf in a horizontal position.It will be seen that it can be swung upon the support, adjusted as tolength, the lamp-shelf set at an. angle and adjusted as to elevation, sothat, for illustration of one of its many uses, the support can beerected upon the table of a sewing-machine and the lamp-shelf swungaround into different positions, even being swung through under the armof the machine, in order to vary the pre sentation of the light to thework. When it is desired to swing the lamp-shelf at an angle, theset-screw 13 is removed or the bars otherwise released, and theloosening of this screw releases them for longitudinal movement to varythe distan'ceof the lamp-shelf from the support.

Having described my invention, claim, and desire to'secure by LettersPatent,

1. The combination with a support and a clamping-sleeve thereon, ofangular and parallel arms pivoted upon said sleeve, a body pivotallymounted upon their free ends, a flanged guide-plate hinged upon and-nor-, mally folding against said body, parallel bars what I.

and longitudinally adjustable in said plate, a sectional foldinglamp-shelf upon said bars, and means to secure said arms, body, andplate together.

In witness whereof I have hereunto setmy hand this 22d day of June,1898.

CHAS. MEE, SR.

In presence'of J. W. SMITH, HOWARD P. DENISON.

